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In article <1991Jun13.073739.1131@ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell) writes:
>In article <1991Jun12.180726.4461@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>>	cd $NEWSCTL
>>	grep ' - <' log.o | \
>>	  grep -v 'duplicate$' | \
>>	  grep -v `cat whoami` | mail mathew@mantis.co.uk
>
>Two, more importantly, encouraging this kind of net.terrorism isn't very
>nice, IMHO.  We are on quite an expensive link to ukc, so not only will
>this mean that we have to suffer, but quite a bit of uknet has to suffer
>in a degradation of performance from ukc.
>
>Before you say this was a joke, I'd like to say that advocating this
>sort of thing is not really a good idea, joke or not.

  I will admit that not all news readers recognize jokes when they see them.
That, after all, is how this particular subject line started several centuries
ago.

  But, consider:

   My "proposal", since it called for modification of news software, could
only be implemented by news administrators at sites running Cnews with the
latest patches.  And even then, it would require some minimal level of
technical skills in writing and modifying shell scripts to implement.  One
should be able to assume that those capable of implementing the "proposal"
have a slightly higher intelligence and a slightly higher sense of
responsibility than the average netnews reader, and although I have no doubt
that there are some exceptions, it is highly unlikely that there are enough
to cause significant net traffic.

  When I wrote that, I did hope it would make Mathew (no, not Matthew) think
more seriously about the real implications of what he has been continuously
demanding for an interminable length of time.

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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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